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100 new COVID-19 cases reported in Ontario this morning

Provincial health officials have said increasing numbers of new cases in this period are expected, as so many Canadians return from overseas. The death toll n...

Ontario reports 9th death, 100 new COVID-19 cases

Dr. Williams was asked about reports of some long-term care homes not enforcing social distancing between long-term care residents. Nineteen of the individuals ...

Stunning Martian Selfie Before NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Completes Record Climb - SciTechDaily

Curiosity is the only NASA rover working on Mars right now, but hopefully it will soon join it. Perseverance , which is scheduled for release in July. Before ...

Ancestor of all animals identified in Australian fossils

According to geologists writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , the development of bilateral symmetry was a crucial evolutionary step. As ...

Parks Canada to close national parks, historic sites to vehicle traffic

As of 12:01a.m. Wednesday March 25, all visitor vehicle traffic will be barred from entering any of Canada's national parks or historic sites. The national ag...

Canadian diamond samples show the size of an ancient continent

The way geologists tied all the pieces together was effortless. Adjoining archaic cratons in North Canada, Northern Ontario and Nunavut possess different min...

6 of 12 Yakima County jail escapees remain on loose

The sheriff's office said in a statement that eight of the inmates were captured nearly immediately, including one who was detained by a firefighter. The rising...

Oldham recycling centres all CLOSED until further notice

Other rubbish and recycling collections are operating as normal, however, due to staff shortages, the council is warning that they may need to suspend some serv...

OneWeb sends further satellites in space

OneWeb aims to provide high-bandwidth communication services using low Earth orbit satellites, with a focus on rural and other areas that are hard-to-reach for...

As China scrambles to contain coronavirus, Xi calls situation grave

The outbreak has prompted widening curbs on movements within China, with Wuhan, a city of 11 million, on virtual lockdown, with transports links all-but severed...

Should Be Moderate Compared to Last Year: NOAA

Previous year saw record floods in several regions of the country. The probability of a major flood state dropped from 94 percent to 59 percent. In addition, th...

Two more deaths and 219 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Ireland

In a statement, Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Health, said all of the restrictions that were imposed earlier this month are consta...

NASA Engineer Tests Positive For COVID-19, Suspends Moon Mission

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, NASA did its first assessment to determine the mission-critical work that requires personals onsite, the work that can be ...

Satellite animation shows pollution clearing over China during coronavirus outbreak

The initial drop shown in the animation, which covers December 20 last year to March 16, coincided with Lunar New Year celebrations, when emissions usually fa...

All Quebec dining establishments, shopping malls ordered to close | Dished

Legault reminded reporters in Quebec City that an increase was expected due to a rise in testing, and that it was too soon for recent social distancing efforts ...

Voyager 2's Interstellar Arrival Was Kind of Familiar. That's Surprising

According to the study published in the science journal Nature Astronomy , Voyager-2 entered ISM on November 5, 2018 . The heliosphere is a bubble-like re...

NASA Spots 4 Asteroids Headed For Earth This Weekend

The first asteroid that will approach Earth this weekend has been identified by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) as 2020 FK . Trailing beh...

NASA Halts Two Space Facilities Amid Coronavirus Fears

The test is highly significant as it's meant to pave the way for the SLS's inaugural launch that is slated to happen in 2021. Notwithstanding SpaceX's Crew ...

‘Wonderchicken’ fossil reveals ancestor of today’s birds

According to the reports, the bird is expected to be from the middle of the ice age and is believed to be an ancestor of the modern horned lark. Visit BGR's ...

Quebec announces its first coronavirus-related death

Dr. Horacio Arruda, Quebec's director of public health, said the person had been in contact with people who had recently travelled. Authorities have communi...

Voyager 2 arrives at interstellar space, finds increased plasma density

Voyager-1 crossed the Sun's limit in 2012. This information adds on to what Voyager 1 , Voyager 2's twin spacecraft, has been observing since it's been i...

FISH FINGERS: Human hand origins, land animals found in ancient fish fossil

The 5ft long "missing link" looked like a shark with powerful sharp fangs, a flat head, long snout and small round eyes - it was the fins that fascinated scient...

Researchers find oldest modern bird fossil, 'Wonderchicken'

They named the creature Asteriornis maastrichtensis , but let's stick with Wonderchicken. The University of Cambridge paleontologist and his student, Juan Beni...

Lockheed Martin will help take NASA astronauts back to the Moon

The second batch will cost less, because it will re-use components from the previous three . The space agency's indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDI...

Another warm day for us here across the Pine Belt

FIRST ALERT DAYS are issued to inform you of inconvenient, hazardous, or potentially unsafe weather in our viewing area-weather that could impact you and your f...

Two New Sawshark Species Discovered in West Indian Ocean

Radiograph of one of the new shark species. The two specimens of P.annae were collected by PhD student Ellen Barrowclift, Dr Andrew Temple and Dr Per Berggren f...

All NASA Facilities On Mandatory Work-From-Home Status

Agency administrator Jim Bridenstine is elevating all NASA facilities to a so "Stage 3 Response Framework " requiring teleworking for any non-essential sta...

COVID-19 mortality was 1.4% in outbreak epicentre

Doctors have linked hypertension, diabetes and respiratory diseases to higher mortality rates among those infected by the novel coronavirus, all of which can be...

Vernal equinox brings earliest spring to USA in 124 years

During each of the equinoxes , there are almost equal parts of daylight and night, and this year the spring equinox is occurring earlier than it has in more th...

Astronaut Al Worden of Apollo 15 Dies at 88

Worden circled the moon in the command module while fellow astronauts Jim Irwin and David Scott explored the surface. While in lunar orbit, he operated a series...